Breaking News: Technology
- Elon Musk's Starlink offers free internet access in Venezuela following U.S. airstrikes and Maduro’s arrest - SpaceX's Starlink is offering free broadband internet service to the people of Venezuela through Feb. 3, amid the fallout of a U.S. military operation in the country.
- Musk's xAI faces backlash after Grok generates sexualized images of children on X - Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
- Ilya Lichtenstein, Bitcoin hacker behind massive crypto theft, credits Trump for early prison release - Ilya Lichtenstein had been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty and admitting to the hack of crypto assets valued in the billions of dollars.
- Chip stocks rally to start 2026 after third-straight winning year - Investors piled into the winning artificial intelligence-adjacent sector following another big year of gains.
- Tesla reports 418,227 deliveries for the fourth quarter, down 16% - Tesla's fourth-quarter deliveries report follows a steep rally in the company's stock in the last few months of 2025.
- China’s BYD poised to overtake Tesla as world’s top EV seller for the first time - The milestone would cap an extraordinary rise for BYD, a company Tesla's Elon Musk once dismissed by laughing at their products.
- China’s ‘Silicon Valley’ is building robots and fortune-telling AI apps at the same time - Hangzhou’s AI ecosystem now spans everything from cutting-edge robotics to experimental apps built by solo founders.
- Baidu’s semiconductor unit Kunlunxin files for Hong Kong listing amid AI chip boom in China - Baidu has announced plans to spin off its artificial intelligence chip subsidiary, Kunlunxin, and list the new firm on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
- Google wraps up best year on Wall Street since 2009, beating megacap peers as AI story strengthens - Shares of Alphabet rallied in 2025 as the company responded to skepticism of its position in artificial intelligence with new products that excited investors.
- 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says he's not shorting Tesla - In a social media post on X, the Scion Asset Management founder responded to a user asking if he would bet against Tesla by saying: "I am not short."